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CONCILIATION TREATY-GERM..A . - lIiY. MAy 5, 1928.
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Treaty of conciliation betwun the UnitM State8 and Germany. SignW,
at Washington May 0 1918; ratijication advised by the Senate, May
10,1918; ratijW by t~ President, May 10, 19!8; ratifod ~ Ger-
many, .January 18, 19S9; ratifications exchanged at Wll8htngton,
FebMuJ,ryfo, 19!9; pr0d4imd. February f5, 1919.
By THE PRESIDENT OJ' THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Conciliation, with WHEREAS a. Treaty of Conciliation between the United States of
Germany.
G
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Preamble.
America and ermany was concluded and signed by their respective
Plenipotentiaries at Washington on the fifth day of May, one thou-
sand nine hundred and twenty-eight, the original of which Treaty,
being in the English and German languages, is word for word as
follows:
Contracting Powers.
The President of the United
States of America and the Presi-
dent of the German Reich, being
desirous to strengthen the bonds
of amity that bind them together
and also to advance the cause of
general peace, have resolved to
enter into a treaty for that pur-
pose, and to that end have
a'pp?inted as their plenipoten-
tianes:
Plen! potentlaries.
The President of the United
States of America, Frank B.
Kell~gg, Secretary of State of
the United States of America;
and
The President of the German
Reich, Herr Friedrich von Pritt-
witz und Gaffron German Am-
ba.ssador to the United States of
America:
Who, after having communi-
cated to each other their respec-
tive full powers, found to be in
proper form, have agreed upon
and concluded the following
articles:
ARTICLE I.
rerourse not made to
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Disputes arising. and An() disputes arising between
t'ompetent tribunal. the overnment of the Uruted
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nature they may be, shall, when
ordinary diplomatic proceedings
have failed and the High Con-
tracting Parties do not have
Der Prasiden t der Vereinigten
Staaten von Amerika und der
Deutsche Reichsprii.sident haben
in dem W unsche, die Bande der
Freundschaft, die sie miteinander
verbinden, zu befestigen und zu-
g-leich die Sache des allgemeinen
Friedens zu fordern, beschlossen,
zu diesem Zwecke einen Vertrag
zu schliessen, und haben hierfiir
zu ihren Bevollmachtigten er-
naunt:
Der Prii.sident der Vereinigten
Staaten von Amerika, Herm
Frank B. Kellogg, den Staatssek-
retAr der Vereinigten Staaten
von Amerlka.; und
Der Deutsche Reichsprii.sident,
den Deutschen Botschafter in
den Vereinigten Staaten von
Amerika, Herm Dr. Friedrich
von Prittwitz und Gaffron.
Die na.ch Austausch ihrer in
gehOriger Form befundenen
beiderseitigen Vollma.chten, die
folgenden Artikel vereinbart und
abgeschlossen haben:
ARTIKEL I.
AIle zwischen der Regierung
der Vereinigten Staaten von
Amerika una der Deutschen Re-
gierung entstehenden Streitfragen
welcher N atur sie auch immer
sein mogen, sollen, wenn sie auf
dem gewohnlichen diplomatischen
Wege nicht beigelegt werden